(urth) What should I read?

[David Stockhoff]

Free Live Free blew my mind before TBotNS.

On 10/12/2011 5:18 PM, Matthew Knapton wrote:
> I'm a big fan of The Fifth Head of Cerberus, and also Peace. Peace is 
> crazy. I'm not really sure if it's one of the best books I've ever 
> read or one of the most boring, but I recommend it to people just 
> about every chance I get so I suppose I liked it.
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lhaygood at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     New Sun, Long Sun, Short Sun = Solar Cycle.
>
>     I personally found "The Wizard Knight" to be below Wolfe's usual
>     quality. Or maybe I just really hated Abel as a protagonist.
>     Either way I don't think they'd make essential Wolfe for me.
>
>     I haven't read Pirate Freedom or Home Fires, but An Evil Guest was
>     great.
>
>     There Are Doors and the seminal Fifth Head of Cerberus remain two
>     of my favorite non-Solar Wolfe books.
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Jay <miltonwjackson at gmail.com
>     <mailto:miltonwjackson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I'd try tackling his short stories next myself. The Island of
>     Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a great
>     introductionto them.
>     >
>     > johnwwoolley at comcast.net <mailto:johnwwoolley at comcast.net> wrote:
>     >
>     >> Plunging into the middle of the conversation ...
>     >>
>     >> Ages ago, I read "The Book of the New Sun", and loved it to the
>     point that I was handing out copies of the first volume to anyone
>     I could get to agree to try it. Wonderful, spectacular book. Then
>     I read "The Urth of the New Sun" and was much less impressed;
>     ditto with "The Devil in a Forest". Then "Soldier of the Mist", a
>     pretty fine piece of writing and a really ambitious and strange
>     (and rather challenging) project. The other day I started "The
>     Book of the Long Sun", and once again, Wolfe is just blowing me
>     away with his prose and story-telling and characters (Patera Silk,
>     Chenille, Auk, even the bird!); I've nearly reached the end of the
>     second volume, and am completely loving it.
>     >>
>     >> So ... what else of Wolfe's should I make sure to read? I think
>     I'd better go back and reread "New Sun", and the "Short Sun"
>     volumes seem to be a continuation of "Long Sun". (Right?) But what
>     besides or after those?
>     >>
>     >> -- John Woolley
>     >>
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